This is how you address toxicity properly not just tap defence matrix every two months and do auto report broken system
See how the dev actually addresses players as human , talks of all the issues and short comings of current system and address not sanitising banter.
They detail their plan of action properly
With determined levels for toxicity and not throwing everything under the same banner.
Taking extreme action against extreme toxicity including hw ban, and having the decency to manual review those extreme cases and not let players get false banned.
Actually talk about increasing support for this.
Can we get anything close to sensibility like this and not another yapper or yappingtion defence matrix yapping.
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I am not going to lie, I am one of those types that just prefers if there is no report system. I do not have some weird compulsion to want to see people punished. I just want to move on to the next game. I am more at risk for a suspension for playing Reinhardt only than a genuine -ism super star.
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The days for no report is unsustainable frankly, they used to work before cause of custom servers with active mods and you used to play with people you generally play with, in the days of sbmm or eomm it’s not going to work and definitely makes playerbase leave.
Like it has always been a problem in halo2 there was proximity chat what did people do the moment they found anyone they used r word
Women recorded and showed it to jason greisner then halo dev for bungie really talented dev , turn off proximity by default to everyone next patch.
I don’t think people threatening others need to play a game.
Also the main stay of the riot system it recognises various levels and doesn’t automate dumbly like blizzard were everyone is punished the same as long you get reported.
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They need to return unlimited perma avoids.
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Riot actually taking action in Valorant shows they actually care about their IP and playerbase, before Valorant was released Overwatch probably had one of the biggest female playerbase in gaming for PC but that’s obviously diminished after years of inaction and kowtowing to just terrible player character.
Instead of banning people for saying a cuss word with no general context, serious action should instead be taken against people who directly verbally abuse other players, overall drag team morale down and specifically harass female players specifically because they’re female.
The lack of female specific protection in its policy is exactly why Overwatch’s female playerbase has probably shrunk 4-5 times what it was in 2016-2018, everybody knows that there are weirdos that specifically bully people for being female (I’ve witnessed it multiple times in my Overwatch games).
All it takes is one really bad experience with some racist or sexist gamer to permanently put off somebody from continuing to play the game, and Blizzard’s consistent lack of significant action in this regard is disappointing.
Personally, I think they should scrap the current system of banning based off number of reports, add a person to review significantly flagged individuals and ban them for a long, long time. This will make it so that the worst characters can get flushed out of the game while also making it an efficient use of labor that is actually manageable as you don’t have to have someone review the same guy once every week.
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Wasn’t Riot Games in hot water not too long ago for enabling inappropriate work conduct?
Blizzard has also had controversies like this, doesn’t mean that the company can’t move on and squelch it.
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I just love the fact that she clearly said muting other players isnt the solution they are looking for and the toxic players are still spamming just that in the comments because they dont have anything else to say 
adorable
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I agree. At this point, it would be much more beneficial to the player base if the system was removed. Its being abused way too much for what its intended purpose actually is.
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